Improvement in bases for chairs and stools



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. DOREMUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT m BASES FOR CHAIRS AND STOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,981, dated February 1, 1876; application filed January 3, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. DOREMUS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Chair and Stool Base, of which the following is a speci- Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved base for screw and pivot chairs, piano-stools, 860., which shall be neat and tasteful in appearance, simple in construction, easy set up, and strong and durable in use.

The invention consists of the improved chairbase formed of a socket, the inclined flange, made with angular recesses, the legs, and the bolts, as hereinafter described.

A is the socket to receive the screw or pivot of the chair or stool. Around the upper part of the socket A is cast a downwardly-inclined flange, B, which may be so formed as to represent leaves, or may be'otherwise ornamented.

The flange B has three or four (preferably in place while supporting the ob four) angular or V-shaped grooves or recesses formed in it to receive the V-shaped upper edges of the upper ends of the legs (J, the ends of which rest against the sides of the socket A, as shown in Fig. 2. V

This construction alone would keep the legs air, if the chair were allowed to stand still.

To enable the chair tobe raised from thefloor without having the legs 0 drop out, bolts D are passed down through the flange B, and through the legs (J, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

This construction forms a strong, durable,

and substantial base, and one which at the 1 A, the inclined flange B, made with angular recesses, the legs 0. and the bolts D, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM T. DOREMUS. Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, JAMES H. HUNTER. 

